Well, like I've said before the the electorate itself is massaged into a certain shape.
In the abstract we have overwhelming support for leftist policy - social security, medicare, increasing the minimum wage... even stuff that's completely insane compared to the status quo, like a universal guaranteed income, ranks near 50%. It takes a lot of work to make giving the majority of people a raise non-viable.
It's not just democrats moving as far right as possible - republicans have to be out of touch elites as well. This was an easy election for Trump to win - Biden has constantly gone on record, that we 'ought to cut social security and medicare to balance the budget. All you had to do was air ads of compilations of the man hanging himself with his own words. But instead they wasted it all on goofy wrestlin' nonsense.
I'm not saying Stephen Bannon is some kind of machiavellian genius, just that the man is able to rub two brain cells together and vaguely imagine what some kind of a normal person is like.
Anyway, all I mean that there is a hypothetical kind of politics where increased participation results in heavily unbalanced results, we've seen them in the past with FDR and Reagan. We won't be
allowed anything like that any time soon, as we saw the "center-leftishs" and the media aligning in lockstep with the Tories last year... Well, anything positive. Fascism will be allowed to win some day.
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Not surprised our resident compassionate conservative stayed home. Probably fapping to Ron Howard--and his deep life experience and connection with real people's lives (in the Hollywood hills).
Try to ease up on people a little. There's nothing that says ones' terminal values should be a certain way, and if ones' terminal values supports the apocalypse and they win (which they have) then maybe we deserve the apocalypse.
Politics is already intentionally designed to revolve around hate and fear. It's not like we can change the outcome, it's set in stone. Angry internet fights are extremely pro-capitalist by how crappy they make everyone feel.
... damnit my dream of the DOOMzOnE being a chill place is just that, isn't it. Even during the apocalypse, I bet there won't be any posts like "lol we're so fukked" and "I'm so glad Bryan posted that video on how to eat trees 25 years ago!"